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Books > Earth & environment > Geography
The OS Historical Map series comprises of Ancient Britain and Roman
Britain. Each archaeological period is identified using different
symbols and colours to show sites from the Stone Age through to the
early Middle Ages against a modern map base, double-sided to cover
the whole country. The Ancient Britain map and guide is
complemented by a timeline that shows British events in relation to
wider history. Key sites of significant historical interest are
highlighted using photographs, text and thumbnail mapping from the
OS Landranger map series. Additional information, such as a list of
archaeological terms, suggested reading and museums to visit, is
also included.
A highly-illustrated, pocket-sized guide to understanding the
forces that have shaped the world's cities from the dawn of
civilisation to the present day. The fortunes of towns and cities
rise and fall along with the fate of the civilisations to which
they belong. Some are lost entirely, now no more than ruins; others
have thrived as urban centres for millennia; and all contain vital
clues embedded in their streets and skylines which reveal why their
inhabitants grouped together, and tell of their unique social,
political and cultural histories. Packed with plans, maps, and
drawings, this book takes you on an international journey of
discovery to explore the history of cities from our earliest urban
origins to the contemporary world city - from Babylon to Beijing,
London to Paris, and from the skyscrapers of New York to the
streets of their own home town. A must-read for anyone interested
in history, cities, and travel, this fascinating book turns you
into an urban detective to see how our towns and cities grew the
way they are.
Technological advancements have changed that way we think of
traditional urban and spatial planning. The inclusion of
conventional elements with modern technologies is allowing this
field to advance at a rapid pace. Geospatial Technologies in Urban
System Development: Emerging Research and Opportunities is a
pivotal reference source for the latest research findings on the
different tools and techniques ranging from mathematical sciences
to spatial sciences which can be effective in unveiling the
complexity of an urban system. Featuring extensive coverage on
relevant areas such as urban traffic, remote sensing, and
geographic information systems, this publication is an ideal
resource for academics, researchers, graduate-level students,
professionals, and policymakers in urban economy, regional
planning, and information science disciplines.
'A most welcome book on the most neglected of topics by a
pioneering team of interdisciplinary scholars. The volume
illuminates the rendering asunder of the borders that previously
protected personal information, even when the individual was in
''public'' and helps us see the muddying of the simple distinction
between public and private. The book asks what public and private
mean (and should mean) today as smart phones, embedded sensors and
related devices overwhelm the barriers of space, time, physicality,
and inefficiency that previously protected information. This
collection offers a needed foundation for future conceptualization
and research on privacy in literal and virtual public spaces. It
should be in the library of anyone interested in the social, policy
and ethical implications of information technologies.' - Gary T.
Marx, Massachusetts Institute of Technology 'How we should think
about privacy in public spaces in a world of artificial
intelligence and ubiquitous sensors is among the most interesting
and pressing questions in all of privacy studies. This edited
volume brings together some of Europe and America's finest minds to
shed theoretic and practical light on a critical issue of our
time.' - Ryan Calo, University of Washington 'The deepest conundrum
in the privacy world-especially, in light of the internet of other
people's things-is perhaps the notion of privacy in public.
Unraveling this practically Kantian antinomy is the ambitious aim
of this important new collection. Together and apart, this
intriguing assemblage of scientists, social scientists,
philosophers and lawyers interrogate subjects ranging from
conceptual distinctions between ''space'' and ''place'' and the
social practice of ''hiding in plain sight'', to compelling ideas
such as ''privacy pollution'' and the problem of ''out-of-body
DNA''. With this edited volume, the team from TILT has curated a
convincing account of the importance of preserving privacy in
increasingly public spaces.' - Ian Kerr, University of Ottawa,
Canada With ongoing technological innovations such as mobile
cameras, WiFi tracking, drones, and augmented reality, aspects of
citizens' lives are becoming increasingly vulnerable to intrusion.
This book brings together authors from a variety of disciplines
(philosophy, law, political science, economics, and media studies)
to examine privacy in public space from both legal and regulatory
perspectives. The contributors explore the contemporary challenges
to achieving privacy and anonymity in physical public space at a
time when legal protection remains limited in comparison to
`private' space. To address this problem, the book clearly
demonstrates why privacy in public space needs defending. Different
ways of conceptualizing and shaping such protection are explored,
for example through `privacy bubbles', obfuscation and surveillance
transparency, as well as by revising the assumptions underlying
current privacy laws. Scholars and students who teach and study
issues of privacy, autonomy, technology, urban geography and the
law and politics of public spaces will be interested in this book.
Contributors include: M. Brincker, A. Daly, A.M. Froomkin, M.
Galic, J.M. Hildebrand, B.-J. Koops, M. Leta, K. Mause, M.
Nagenborg, B.C Newell, A.E. Scherr, T. Timan, S.B. Zhao
The nineteenth century was an era of breathtakingly ambitious
geographic expeditions across the Americas. The seminal
Chorographic Commission of Colombia, which began in 1850 and lasted
about a decade, was one of Latin America's most extensive. The
commission's mandate was to define and map the young republic and
its resources with an eye toward modernization. In this history of
the commission, Nancy Appelbaum focuses on the geographers'
fieldwork practices and visual production as the men traversed the
mountains, savannahs, and forests of more than thirty provinces in
order to delineate the country's territorial and racial
composition. Their assumptions and methods, Appelbaum argues,
contributed to a long-lasting national imaginary. What jumps out of
the commission's array of reports, maps, sketches, and paintings is
a portentous tension between the marked differences that appeared
before the eyes of the geographers in the field and the visions of
sameness to which they aspired. The commissioners and their patrons
believed that a prosperous republic required a unified and racially
homogeneous population, but the commission's maps and images
paradoxically emphasized diversity and helped create a ""country of
regions."" By privileging the whiter inhabitants of the cool Andean
highlands over those of the boiling tropical lowlands, the
commission left a lasting but problematic legacy for today's
Colombians.
Deleuze's fondness for geography has long been recognised as
central to his thought. This is the first book to introduce
researchers to the breadth of his engagements with space, place and
movement. Focusing on pressing global issues such as urbanization,
war, migration, and climate change, Arun Saldanha presents a
detailed Deleuzian rejoinder to a number of theoretical and
political questions about globalization in a variety of
disciplines. This systematic overview of moments in Deleuze's
corpus where space is implicitly or explicitly theorized shows why
he can be called the twentieth century's most interesting thinker
of space. Anyone with an interest in refining such concepts as
territory, assemblage, body, event and Anthropocene will learn much
from the "geophilosophy" which Deleuze and Guattari proposed for
our critical times.
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